Performative methods are playing an increasingly prominent role in research into historical production processes, materials, bodily knowledge and sensory skills, and in forms of education and public engagement in classrooms and museums. This book offers, for the first time, sustained, interdisciplinary reflections on performative methods, variously known as Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment (RRR) practices across the fields of history of science, archaeology, art history, conservation, musicology and anthropology. Each of these fields has distinct histories, approaches, tools and research questions. Researchers in the historical disciplines have used reconstructions to learn about the materials and practices of the past, while anthropologists and ethnographers have more often studied the re-enactments themselves, participating in these performances as engaged observers. In this book, authors bring their experiences of RRR practices within their discipline into conversation with RRR practices in other disciplines, providing a basis for interdisciplinary cross-fertilization.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Sven Dupré, Anna Harris, Julia Kursell, Patricia Lulof, Maartje Stols-Witlox
- 1. Replication as a Play on Categories: The Case of Taxidermy
- 2. Bringing the Past to Life: Material Culture Production and Archaeological Practice
- 3. Making Musicians Think: The Problem with Organs
- 4. Making Sound Present: Re-enactment and Reconstruction in Historical Organ Building Practices
- Julia Kursell and Peter Peters
- 5. Reconstructions of Oil Painting Materials and Techniques: The HART Model for Approaching Historical Accuracy
- 6. Imperfect Copies. Reconstructions in Conservation Research and Practice
- 7. Reworking Recipes and Experiments in the Classroom
- Thijs Hagendijk, Peter Heering, Lawrence M. Principe and Sven Dupré
- 8. A Walk as Act / Enact / Re-enactment: Performing Psychogeography and Anthropology
- 9. Recreating Reconstructions: Archaeology, Architecture and 3D Technologies
- 10. Science and the Knowing Body: Making Sense of Embodied Knowledge in Scientific Experiment
- Index of RRR Terminology
- Index of Keywords
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